Not the admin, but I'll answer some of your questions.

The software behind Ramble is postmill (see this comment).

Regarding hosting, if you look at the bottom of the pages on Ramble, you may see:

Hosting by Incognet

I was talking in reference to the person you mentioned in your post.

and after posting everyday links to his blog, science article, on 1st Jan. 2023 , banned for ever

I wanted to say that there might have been a legit reason as to why they were banned.

There are many Mastodon instances. Anyone with required knowledge and resources can host an instance, including people who don't care about free speech.

Posting links to your own blog for a long period of time can anger moderators/admins, especially if that is the only thing the user does. This can be interpreted as spam.

As was said earlier, it's HTTPS issues. I'm experiencing similar problems on Firefox. Using HTTP over yggdrasil works fine for me. Clearnet connection with HTTP also works, but you won't have encryption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_Internetwork_Architecture

Never heard of it before.

TCP/IP seems to be omnipresent. No idea how something can attempt at replacing it.

HN discussion: "Intel Microcode Decryptor"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32145324

Not sure why a localhost IP got banned. Perhaps some internal server fuckery.

Do you have the exact error message?

My assumption was that the 500 was somehow caused by the link I posted. I noticed that it's quite common for parsers to break around IPv6 links, like how they sometimes mess up when you put them in markdown or how Firefox tries to encode the square brackets in the url when you copy it from the address bar. Perhaps developers will pay closer attention to these issues if IPv6 ever becomes a norm.

testv6

testv4

ovarit.com runs a fork of throat.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ovarit

Ovarit is a link aggregator and runs a forked instance of Throat (a clone of the now-defunct Reddit clone Voat).

https://gitlab.com/feminist-conspiracy/throat

Are you going to use the same software (Postmill)?

I remember you were considering a switch to Throat.

That happens with many other eepsites for me. Since it happens to some sites more frequently than others, I'd assume that it's related to geolocation / (how far the server is away from you). I'm not an I2P expert, but the whole tunneling part seems rather complex and prone to latency issues due to possible problems with intermediate routers, so maybe ramble doesn't always resolve properly because of something going wrong in the middle of the connection.

Is it open source?

- futaba + futallaby + tinyib -

What are those links supposed to be? It seems like only one of them is pointing to a repository, although the other two also mention some kind of code. Am confused.

There's something similar on Windows, where someone would tell others to "open cmd.exe" and type del System32, which would destroy the core system files. Probably the simplest form of malware to ever exist. I've heard stories of people actually falling for that.

Do captchas even help though? They sure help prevent automated sign-ups, but spam? The modlog documents several spam waves that happened right before registration was disabled. Even Raddle suffers from this, hence why they currently enforce the same measures.

I experienced a few errors while posting this. At first, submission returned a 500 internal server error. Trying the second time (after removing the link from the "url" input area) outputed something on the lines of "invalid CSRF token". Third time's the charm - reposting once again yielded no errors. I think this may have something to do with the fact that I am posting from yggdrasil.

You have a broken link in the "Related Articles" section. The very last one. The file that it points to doesn't have a ".html" extension.

Good to now. I am currently researching about yggdrasil. It seems like great technology, and actually fits most of my use cases. I was getting tired of I2P's slow speeds, so I began digging deeper into alternative P2P networks that are less on anonymity and more on decentralization.

There is a bug on your search form. Any search result comes with a warning message:

Warning: Use of undefined constant allow - assumed 'allow' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /var/www/html/forms_php/search.php on line 160 

The number of times this warning appears is equivalent to the number of search results returned.

Google seems to be showing the site, but only the index page. Most of the results are other sites containing links.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cheapskatesguide

It does start showing individual articles after a bit of tinkering, like doing "repeat the search with the omitted results included."

I don't think there's any permanent solution to service providers deciding to not provide you with a service. One could hack their way through by applying workarounds where possible, although that's only temporary. Anonymity networks generally solve the tracking problem, but they come with their own issues. It's impractical to use darknets for daily tasks, especially when you have a slow connection, plus the lack of mass adoption.

Yeah, the list is kinda narrow right now. I will add a couple more sites later, but will try to stick to the OSS theme. I could just shove talk.lol and the rest under an "etc" category, but that wouldn't be any different from an already existing list.

Should it even be here? I believe it's not a fork of anything, nor is it open source. This list is obviously not complete, it only features sites that are active instances of a few self-hostable reddit alternatives.

Throat's interface looks neat, but I think it's more js-reliant than postmill. You could assume this just by looking at the languages used in the git repos, although that hardly ever means anything.

Phuks also has this "score" and "level" system which I don't really understand. And user posts/comments are only visible to logged in users. Maybe this can be toggled somewhere, or is only a feature specific to phuks, not sure.